Evidence from state-level reopening orders shows that by late April 2020 (about six weeks after March 17–18, 2020), people in some parts of the United States were again allowed to eat inside restaurants, with health‑screening requirements in place.

Key points:

• Timeframe match: Six weeks after March 17–18, 2020 falls in late April 2020. Jason’s statement (“Six weeks from now will be in restaurants”) was made around March 19, 2020, so the target window is roughly the last week of April 2020.

• Alaska: indoor dining from April 24, 2020 – The U.S. COVID-19 timeline and Alaska’s pandemic chronology show that Alaska allowed restaurants to reopen for dine‑in service at 25% capacity with tables 10 feet apart on April 24, 2020. (en.wikipedia.org) This is within the six‑week window.

• Georgia: indoor dining from April 27, 2020 with health screening – Georgia’s detailed reopening order allowed restaurants and dining rooms to resume dine‑in services starting April 27, 2020, subject to multiple safety measures. These included a requirement that restaurants “screen and evaluate workers who exhibit signs of illness, such as a fever over 100.4°F, cough, or shortness of breath” and keep them from working, along with capacity limits and mask requirements for staff. (littler.com) These provisions amount to explicit health checks (symptom and temperature screening) associated with the reopening of indoor dining.

• Scope of prediction: The normalized prediction only requires that “people in at least some parts of the United States” be allowed to eat inside restaurants by that time, with health checks such as temperature or symptom screening. The Georgia and Alaska examples satisfy this: indoor dining was permitted again in those states in the late‑April window, and at least in Georgia it was tied to formal employee health screenings.

Because indoor restaurant dining did resume in some U.S. jurisdictions by late April 2020 and was accompanied by health‑screening measures, Jason’s six‑week prediction is best judged as right.